![]() He even lived through San Francisco in the 1960s.īut to me, the most fearless and adventuresome aspect of his long life (he’s nearing 80) has been his courageous expeditions into the darkest interiors of the human skull-his willingness to risk losing his mind to find out more about what goes on inside ours. He’s sailed fragile craft to the remotest Pacific isles and trekked through the jungles of Oaxaca. He has gone to the limits of the physical globe, almost losing his life as darkness fell on a frozen Arctic mountainside. ![]() And indeed that’s how he looked when I spoke with him recently, in his comfy-couched consultation room.īut Oliver Sacks is one of the great modern adventurers, a daring explorer of a different sort of unmapped territory than braved by Columbus or Lewis and Clark. Cumulatively, they give the impression of a warm, fuzzy, virtually cherubic fellow at home in comfy-couched consultation rooms. ![]() ![]() It certainly is if all you do is look at the author photos on the succession of brainy best-selling neurology books he’s written since Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat made him famous. It’s easy to get the wrong impression about Dr. ![]()
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